The poet is always indebted to the universe, paying interest and fines on sorrowVladimir MayakovskyConversation with an Inspector of Taxes about Poetry
All a poet can do today is warnWilfred OwenPoems (preface)
Sir, I admit your general rule That every poet is a fool; But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poetAlexander PopeEpigram from the French
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poet
British English: poet /ˈpəʊɪt/ NOUN
A poet is a person who writes poems.
He was a painter and poet.
American English: poet
Arabic: شاعِر
Brazilian Portuguese: poeta
Chinese: 诗人
Croatian: pjesnik
Czech: básník
Danish: digter
Dutch: dichter
European Spanish: poeta
Finnish: runoilija
French: poète
German: Dichter
Greek: ποιητής
Italian: poeta
Japanese: 詩人
Korean: 시인 작가
Norwegian: dikter
Polish: poeta
European Portuguese: poeta
Romanian: poet
Russian: поэт
Latin American Spanish: poeta
Swedish: poet
Thai: กวี
Turkish: şair
Ukrainian: поет
Vietnamese: nhà thơ
Chinese translation of 'poet'
poet
(ˈpəuɪt)
n(c)
诗(詩)人 (shīrén) (位, wèi)
(noun)
Definition
a writer of poetry
the English poet William Blake
Synonyms
bard (archaic, literary)
the epic and myth which formed the bard's repertoire
rhymer
lyricist
lyric poet
versifier
maker (archaic)
elegist
see also subject word lists:
See Poetry
Quotations
The poet is the priest of the invisible [Wallace Stevens – Adagia]A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere [W.H. Auden – Shorts II]For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain [Michael Drayton – To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy]Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal [T.S. Eliot – The Sacred Wood]The poet is always indebted to the universe, paying interest and fines on sorrow [Vladimir Mayakovsky – Conversation with an Inspector of Taxes about Poetry]All a poet can do today is warn [Wilfred Owen – Poems (preface)]Sir, I admit your general rule That every poet is a fool; But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet [Alexander Pope – Epigram from the French]